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He tried to shoot himself, then he rammed a paper knife into his throat. Eventually he became convinced that flies were devouring his brain. As his syphilis progressed his writing got more and more shocking because he himself was losing his sense of reality. Unfortunatetly, his lifestyle ultimately resulted in his contracting syphilis. He even had three children with one lover. Yes, amd he apparently inherited his fatherвЂ™s taste in women, for he too has been labeled by history as вЂњa womanizer.вЂќ He was single, had many relationships: these included relationships prostitutes all the way to many other women of high rank including countesses. After a few years, he was able to quit his day job and live off his writing and in a high style. Well, Flaubert introduced de Maupassant to other famous writers and off his career started. is beautifully written and admired as a powerful work concerned with human frailty. His most famous book- Madame Bovary-maybe one of the most infuriating books IвЂ™ve ever read- of course thatвЂ™s intentional. Eventually, he moved to Paris, and his mother introduced him to a man who would be the single greatest influence in his life, outside of his mother, Gustave Flaubert. He went to Catholic school which apparently wasnвЂ™t a positive experience, and he orchestrated his own expulsion. Well, it was, and Guy was raised by his mom. His mother filed for and got divorced from his dad for his being a womanizer-ДЄ woman being granted a divorce was unusual for that time. He grew up in Normandy which is in the North of France.

Which in some ways is interesting in light of the fact that he did financially and professionally well for himself in spite of some very difficult obstables not the least of which is his parents fairly traumatic divorce. A lot of his stories convey a sense of hopelessness really- trying to fight fate. He was very interested in social struggle and in some ways a little cynical about the whole thing.

De Maupassant observed all levels of French society starting with prostitutes to soldiers and upward on the social scale. IвЂ™m sure MauPaussantвЂ™s war experiences were one big influence and subject of his writing, but certainly not the only one. Guy de Maupassant volunteered in that war and pulled from his experiences in the war for a lot of his stories. Napoleon the 3rd, would be the last emperor of France. The German confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia defeated Napoleon III and FranceвЂ™s Second Empire. However, this isnвЂ™t exactly accurate because our maps have changed so much since those days. This war was between France and what is now primarily what we call Germany. Yeah, I guess IвЂ™ve heard of the Franco-Prussian war, but I canвЂ™t say I understand it very well. Among other things, it changed the landscape of Europe and the. As with every other war, it was an atrocity, although we donвЂ™t talk about it much today. Unfortunately this all came crashing down to some degree with Emperor Napoleon III, reluctantly really, led France into the Franco-Prussian war. Europe in general was experiencing the good and bad of the height of the Industrial Revolution(we talked about that briefly when we talked about Charles Dickens but also William Blake-some of the excesses were pretty terrible and were felt all over Europe), but France in particular under the leadership of Emperor Napoleon 3rd, made great strides to modernization. If we put that in historical context in the AmericaвЂ™s, we were living through the American Civil War. He wrote over 300 stories, six novels, three travel books and a bunch of poetry. He died right before turning 43, but fortunately during his life he got to enjoy financial success and even fame. Guy de Maupaussant didnвЂ™t live very long. And the story we will be reading and discussing is his most famous story, вЂњThe NecklaceвЂќ. Today we are going to journey to France and meet one of the greatest short story writers in the world- he influenced O Henry, Chekov, Kate Chopin and many others- this would be Guy de Maupassant.

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IвЂ™m Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. Hi, IвЂ™m Christy Shriver and weвЂ™re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. Guy de Maupassant - The Necklace - The Master Of The Short Story At His Best!

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